Guild Wars 2

@Romain

They didnt change retaliation. It still does the same damage every time, and does more danage with higher power.

They changed our sources of retaliation… The inspiration 5 (or 15… Cant remember) ‘Vengefull Images’ used to give permanent retaliation to phantasms. It was the highest offense of this build, and thy changed it to only give them 5 seconds retaliation, which is useless.

“We want to increase build diversity in this patch”… Yea, right.

Also, here is a list of builds and guides: Find your Mesmer Builds & Guides!
And here is a comprehensive Mesmer guide which contains almost everything (everything except fashion advice), including ways to create your own build:Lyssa’s Grimoire – comprehensive Mesmer aguide

Happy Mesmering :P

Keep in mind that Veil has been updated to actually be a Combo Field: Light, and is no longer Ethereal like it was wrongfully(?) before. This means you have two fields now that you can use to build Retaliation with, using Sword+Focus and Staff. The build should still be doable.

Absconditus.6804:

Keep in mind that Veil has been updated to actually be a Combo Field: Light, and is no longer Ethereal like it was wrongfully(?) before. This means you have two fields now that you can use to build Retaliation with, using Sword+Focus and Staff. The build should still be doable.

Realistic comboing will only put retaliation on yourself. The big strength of he build was that, enemies that manage to aoe/cleave all your phantasms +defender at the same time, will take 5ish hits from retaliation from a single skill use.

It was a really unique and fun build, that was quite balanced (you can only kill people who are too silly to notice 9000 damage from retaliation. If they dont attack, they dont die), there was really no reason to them to nerf it into the ground.

I have actually come to believe that devs never read profession forums to get an idea of what builds exist, and the discussions here. They only come when someone gets reported and infracted :/.

TL;DR: having perma retaliation on yourself isnt enough damage. At best youll do about 20% of the damage this build used to do.

What build are you guys going with now for sPvP? I was trying this build out the other night and was liking it. I was tanking as hell but wasn’t doing sh—- for damage. It was good for bunkering and keeping points contested while I waited for reinforcements.